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Tibetan or Chinese origin, 18th century embroidery Tibetan Buddhist art of Cosmic Mount Meru

Tibetan or Chinese origin, 18th century embroidery Tibetan Buddhist ar...

The setting, with beasts and floating skulls in a desolate landscape, focuses the mind of the meditator (or the initiate in a ceremony) upon mortality, and hence upon the eternal. Within the circle is a view of... More

The Buddha Shakyamuni at Mount Meru - c. 1700-1800

The Buddha Shakyamuni at Mount Meru - c. 1700-1800

The Buddha Shakyamuni at Mount Meru Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

21.11 Meru mountain

21.11 Meru mountain

Deutsch: Berg Meru. Westlicher Stahlstich des mythischen Berg Meru, nachträglich koloriert, unbekanntes Vorbild, ca. 1855

Mount Meru - Public domain dedication image

Mount Meru - Public domain dedication image

Painting of Mount Meru from Samghayanarayana loose-leaf manuscript India; ca. 17th century Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper.

1860s Edo Period Japanese Buddhist Map of Mount Meru

1860s Edo Period Japanese Buddhist Map of Mount Meru

1860s Edo Period Japanese Buddhist Map of Mount Meru

Shans at home (1910) (14754613636)

Shans at home (1910) (14754613636)

Identifier: cu31924023077252 (find matches) Title: Shans at home Year: 1910 (1910s) Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis Subjects: Shan (Asian people) Publisher: London : J. Murr... More

A Korean world map centered on the legendary Mount Meru in Central Asia

A Korean world map centered on the legendary Mount Meru in Central Asi...

A Korean world map of a type whose religious and cosmological content goes back to mid–fourth-century China, is centered on the legendary Mount Meru in Central Asia. UPPER: BRITISH LIBRARY (MAPS.C.27.F.14); LO... More

Bhutanese thanka of Mt. Meru and the Buddhist Universe

Bhutanese thanka of Mt. Meru and the Buddhist Universe

Bhutanese thanka of Mt. Meru and the Buddhist Universe, 19th century

Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru

Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru

Chinese K'o-ssu depicting w:Mount Meru. Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Silk tapestry (kesi), 33 x 33 in. (83.8 x 83.8cm). This elaborate tapestry-woven mandala, or cosmic diagram, illustrates Indian imagery introdu... More

The cosmic tortoise, and Mount Meru - Public domain map

The cosmic tortoise, and Mount Meru - Public domain map

Views of India from an atlas by the geographer Thunot Duvotenay (1796-1875), published in Paris, 1843 1) *A map of ancient India*; *A map of Mongol India*; *A map of modern India* 2) *Images of t... More